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...industry has never paid a cent" in the similar cases that have been filed over the years, declares John Strauch, the lead attorney for Reynolds. The company's lawyers are expected to argue that Galbraith freely chose to smoke and thus cannot hold the company responsible for his illness. Nor will they concede that smoking can cause cancer. It "is still an open scientific question," Strauch says...
When John Benda joined Johnson & Johnson 3½ years ago, he was puffing two packs of cigarettes a day and packed 210 puffy pounds on a 6-ft. 1-in. frame. Now the 29-year-old systems analyst no longer smokes, and his scale registers 170 lbs. Though he had intended to stop smoking and lose weight, Benda got started with the help of an extra incentive: a company-sponsored program that rewards employees for taking steps to safeguard health. By attending smoking or stress workshops, exercising for at least 20 minutes, keeping their weight down, wearing seat belts while driving...
...First came a reddish illumination that shot up to about 26,000 ft.," the pilot recalled. "Then came a shower of ash that covered us and left me without visibility. The cockpit filled with smoke and heat and the smell of sulfur." The blast charred the nose of the DC-8 and turned the aircraft's windows white. Flying only on instruments, Cervero diverted the plane to the city of Cali, 20 minutes from Bogotá. Making his final approach, the pilot said, he had to push open one of the cockpit's side windows in order to catch a glimpse...
Tragically, it appeared that the signs leading up to the Nevado del Ruiz eruption had been closely monitored. The volcano began to send up plumes of smoke more than a year ago. On two occasions last September, the mountain spat out showers of rock and ash, eventually causing authorities to issue warnings to the surrounding population while quietly preparing contingency plans to avoid a calamity. Maps plotting the likely course of last week's disaster had been completed only four or five weeks ago. But the next steps had not been taken. Said Darrell Herd, deputy chief of the Reston...
...about Soufrière, a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe that began to spout a heavy plume of ash. Goaded by the geologists' alarms, authorities evacuated more than 70,000 people from the area and kept them away for 3½ months. The result: the mountain continued to sputter smoke and cough volumes of ash for a while, but it never blew. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Christine Gorman/New York and Charles Pelton/San Francisco